Can we do it?
Can we bring softness and kindness to battlegrounds, both inner and outer?
Art helps.
Senior Venus
Sally Swain © original art
Senior Venus, apparently, is
Senior Venus
Tag Archives: paintage
Looking the Monster in the Eye
In Which
One Artist Attempts
to Transform Fear and Loathing
into Peace and Power
A (Literally) Ripping Picture-Story Comprising Alternative Art Heart Facts
{Warning: you might not be able to stomach the ensuing facial photos}
{on the other hand, the face has been difficult to avoid, unless you live in a remote cave in an exotic location}
Preface (a poem):
There’s no need to ration
self-care or compassion
when tending a wound
of the heart.
To deepen the healing,
allow space for feeling
and channel your hurt
through your art.
Chapter One
in which
Flower Beyond the Edge
Flower is a noun and a verb.
Flower Beyond the Edge
Sally Swain © original art
The paintage (paint plus collage) arose in response to concern about
Texture Breathing
How to Grow a
Delicatree.
Delicatree
Sally Swain © original art
A PAINTAGE RECIPE
Ingredients:
- a palette of squodgy leftover paint from your residential aged care art therapy clients
- patterns, textures and colours from magazines of any era
- a cup of expressive slapdashery
- a cup of order-making quietitude
- a black felt pen
- a goodly dose of tenderness
- a slug of love
- immeasurable commitment to creative process
Method:
What was Lost has been Found
Read all about it below
and let’s complete our celebration of One Year of Blogging in the month-of-May
But first…
Can you be lost and found at the same time?
Sure.
Here’s my paintage (painting + collage)
Lost and Found in the Forest.
Lost and Found in the Forest
Sally Swain © original art
And here’s the story behind the picture.
Are you a Bird Nerd?
BirdWoman O’Clock
Sally Swain © original art
Let’s look at Bird O’Clock Two
and continue to Celebrate Creative Community
as we mark One-Year-of-Blogging in the Month-of-May
Are you a Bird Nerd?
Am I?
Could
Bird O’Clock
Celebrating Community and Mystery
(Art and Soul Space blog’s first birthday continues through the month of May.
Why not?)
Blue Bird O’Clock
Sally Swain © original art
What I remember:
Prepare to be subjected to the Land of the
Long White Blog unfolding itself across time and space.
Can you cope?
And what am I talking about anyway?
Remember the Resting-in-Abundance Tree from a couple of weeks back?
Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Sally Swain © original art
Well, it came to
Art and Soul Space 